Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2023 10:04:47 -0700 | Subject | Re: Linux 6.2-rc1 | From | Jens Axboe <> |
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On 1/6/23 9:58?AM, Pali Roh?r wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2023 13:33:11 Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 1/5/23 1:03?PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> So nobody is going to be motivated to do any development in this area, >>> and the best we can do is probably to just keep it limping along. >> >> Indeed... > ... >>> There's probably other cruft in pktcdvd that could be removed without >>> removing the whole driver, but I do get the feeling that it's just >>> less pain to keep the status quo, and that there isn't really much >>> motivation for anybody to do anything else. >> >> I'm reluctant to touch it outside of changes that are driven by core >> changes, and of course the motivation to remove it was driven by not >> wanting to do that either. Any kind of re-architecting of how it works I >> would not advocate for. It supposedly works well enough that none of the >> (few) users are reporting issues with it, best to just let it remain >> like that imho. > > Yea, I agree. This code is in state when it is _used_ and not developed > anymore. Nobody is really motivated to re-architecture or rewrite this > code. Such work has big probability to break something which currently > works fine. And because lot of users are on stable/LTS kernel versions, > it is possible that we would not notice breakage earlier than (lets say) > in 5 years.
I did sent out the revert this morning, would be great if you can test 6.2-rc3 when it is out. I'm a bit skeptical on the whole devnode front, and suspect we might need to convert that to disk_name manipulation. Which would be fine, as we can then drop the devnode reinstate revert as well going forward. But I need to find a bit of time to look closer at this part.
-- Jens Axboe
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